Geir Hauge wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 08:01:05PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
# this is odd: 2vars with content for 2:
unset a b
a= b= read a b <<< x y
declare -p a b
declare -- a="x"
declare -- b=""
# -- where did "y" go?
read a b <<< x y
is the same as
read a b y <<< x
If you escape the space, to make it literal instead of syntactical, you'll get
the expected result:
$ a= b= read a b <<< x\ y
$ declare -p a b
declare -- a="x"
declare -- b="y"
---
Was sorta meant as a rhetorical Question in the batch
of examples that seem to have differing behavior -- but especially
in contrast with the POSIX versions that dump core.
Bad-syntax shouldn't yield Segmentation Violations...
